SU-24 (SU-24M) Front-line bomber

Su-24M is a front-line bomber with a variable-sweep wing, designed for precision air strikes in simple and adverse weather conditions, during the day and night, including small altitudes surface attacks of sighting target destruction at land and above-water.

Aircraft has two installed AL-21F engines (side by side) in two isolated compartments - left and right, separated by fire-bulkhead.

Combat load - 8000 kg on 8 points of suspension

Built-in 23-mm gun GSh-6-23M with 500 shells,

120 (6 × 20) × 80 mm S-8 in blocks B-8M,

10 × 500 kg (OFAB-500ShR) or

16 × 250 kg (OFAB-250ShN)

Su-24M equipped with sight-navigation system PNS-24M "Tigr", which combines 13 subsystems. It includes: pulse Doppler radar "Orion-A", the terrain following radar "Relief", and also optoelectronic system "Kayra-24" with laser target designator and block of television survey.

Flight and navigation equipment provides access to the target area in the mode of autonomous navigation on a programmed route by automatic terrain following on the altitude of 200 m at a speed of 1320 km/h, that much increases aircraft combat survivability. It includes airborne computer TsVU-10-058К, inertial system МiS-P, automatic flight control system SAU-6М1 PPV. Also there is a weapon control system SUO-1-6М.